Community safety accreditation scheme

Community safety accreditation schemes enable the chief constable of a police force in the United Kingdom (Except Scotland[1]) to grant a limited range of police powers to employees of non-police organisations bolstering community safety.

The Act also requires that the organisation employing an accredited person must be 'fit and proper' and that they must have a satisfactory complaints procedure in place.

[4] An accredited person remains under the control of their normal employer, and is not managed or tasked by the police force.

These officers carry police Airwave radios and are dispatched to incidents by the force control room.

Common examples of employees granted powers under a community safety accreditation scheme include security guards, community, parish, park and dog wardens, trading standards officers, and housing association staff.